SUN BATHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 5 (Supplement)

SUN BATHS.

BE CAREFUL. " I'm going to lie out in tlio open and take a sun hath," wo say when the hot sun beats down on beach or lawn. An excellent intention if followed with discretion, l"it slight sunstroke, sickness, headaches, and "disfiguring blisters and blotches on the skin arc the least of the evils risked by imprudent people. When you sit in the sun after a bathe, remember that eminent doctors recommend only ten minutes or so exposure at a time, at first, if you arcs not fully clothed, until you become quite accustomed to it, and even (hen no one should stay out in the sun without moving position every little while, so that one side or part of the body is not in the full heat all the timo.^ Nover remain in the sun without tho protection of a large hat or sunshade for the head or the back of tho neck. These are most vulnerable spots. lentil they have time to become acclimatised, don't strip the little ones almost naked to splash about in the pools and run on (he unshaded sands all day. Tender, inflamed skin, headaches and peevish discomfort is the portion of the poor children who pass from tho dim sunlight and conventional clothing of cities straight to such extreme conditions.